Lowell Nesbitt
Born 1933 in Baltimore
New Realism
US-American, 20th century
 
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Curriculum Vitae
1950 – 1956Studies in Philadelphia and London
1958First exhibition: Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
1963 He concentrates on the concept of concreteness by painting a series of flower pictures and photographically exact large-format cut-outs of Manhattan' s cast iron architecture.
1965Howard Wise Gallery, New York
1966Galerie Thelen: New Hampshire Room Essen, Köln
1967Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Detroit
1970Neue Galerie: Start, Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen
1973Gimpel Fils, London
1976Navy and Marine Corps Museum, Treasure Island, San Francisco
1980 The United States Postal Service issues four stamps based on Nesbitt's floral paintings.
He also serves as the official artist for the Apollo 9 and Apollo 13 space flights and as the Space Programme' s official artist
1981General Electric Gallery, Fairfield
1982Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York
1983Washington and Lee University, Lexington; Morris Museum of Art's and Sciences, Morristown
1984Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City
1985Tyler Alumni Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
1986DiLaurenti Gallery, New York
1988Wally Findlay Galleries, Palm Beach
1993The artist dies in New York
 
Exhibitions
2000Kunsthaus Zürich: Hypermental- Wahnhafte Wirklichkeit 1955-2000 von Salvador Dalí bis Jeff Koon, Zurich
2001Hamburger Kunsthalle: Hypermental - Wahnhafte Wirklichkeit 1950-2000 von Salvador Dalí bis Jeff Koon, Hamburg
2003Stiftung Museum Kunst Palast: The Power of Pop, Dusseldorf
2004 Galerie Jöllenbeck: Lowell Nesbitt-Paintings from the Seventies, Cologne;
Polk Museum of Art: At the Edge of a Petal - Floral Works of Art from the Permanent Collection, Lakeland
2005 Oklahoma City Museum of Art: Selections from the Westheimer Family Collection, Oklahoma City;
Museum Morsbroich Städtisches Museum Leverkusen Schloss Morsbroich: Blumenstück - Künstlers Glück, Vom Paradiesgärtlein zur Prilblume, Leverkusen